Tony Finch said: > The BBC's time signals come from a GPS receiver - not the NPL as they used > to. The UK government made a big fuss about the fact that the London > Internet Exchange is (almost) on the Greenwich meridian as part of the > millennium celebrations, to the extent of promoting (GPS-synchronized) > NTP and funding atomic clocks located at the LINX.
Nitpick: the government didn't fund anything - it was all paid for out of private money. [I speak as a director of LINX at the time.] They did support it, though. Googling for "Greenwich Electronic Time" will tell more. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | | _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
